4. It is called "giving up the sleeves off his vest"

It is complete bullshit. The top marginal tax is completely irrelevant because none of the rich pay any significant taxes at that rate. Raise that to 99% and it wouldn't affect any of the 0.1%

Here's what DOES affect them and you notice that neither Ben Stein nor Barack Obama is talking about any of these things:

a) Setting the cap gains rate back to 20% where it was under Clinton, or better yet, putting it back to the same rate as earned income, just as Reagen had it -- that was one of the tax increases Reagen pushed for.

b) Move dividend taxes back to the earned income rate, as they were under Clinton.

c) Get rid of billionaire's loopholes like carried interest that allows them to launder their income under the special low cap gains rate.

d) Do something about all the Enron-style fake corporate structures and offshore tricks used to hide income from taxation altogether.

Nobody is talking about these things. They are all talking about the bullshit top marginal rate that makes no difference at all. They are all selling us out, including Obama.

15. Maybe not, but he is the best thing the GOP has going, apparently the smartest in the bunch

The only one capable of using logic and common sense.

He must be wondering to himself, 'I'm not really an economist, how is it I am the smartest guy around?'

Because you don't have to be an economist to use basic logic and common sense, but the politicians and corporate media have their heads so far up their asses, they think we are just as stupid as they are.

Why would we let the most corrupt disgusting corporate media ever lead this discussion, and allow they most hated Congress ever...to make policy decisions that the rest of us must suffer and die under?

WE have to realize we are ALL smarter than the corporate media and idiot politicians and start acting like it.